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When Wayne Adam Ford walked into the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office in November 1998 with a woman's body part in his jacket pocket, the 36-year-old truck driver wasn't a suspect in any crime. After a lengthy

investigation spanning four California counties in a sensational trial, he was convicted of the

torture and murder of four women. His first victim, whom he dismembered, would remain unidentified for 25 years.

While serving honorably in the Marine Corps, Ford had learned life-saving techniques that gave him

structure and purpose. But a severe head injury worsened pre-existing emotional problems,

rendering him unable to suppress his dark sexual impulses.

Knowing he would kill again,

he enlisted his brother's help to turn himself in.

Award-winning investigative journalist Caitlin Rother drew on previously sealed testimony and

interviewed key players in the case, including Ford's brother and father, to write this

intimate and psychologically resonant narrative. Extensively updated with the inside details of how Ford's first victim,

Carrie Ann Cummings, was recently identified through DNA testing and forensic genealogy.

This classic true crime story continues to haunt us.

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